Lee Atchison | Cloud Strategist, Thought Leader, Industry Cloud Expert

Managing Risk in Modern Enterprise Applications

By: Ken Gavranovic and Lee Atchison Want to reduce MTTR, reduce incidents and have a data driven discussion on investment allocation? Try what many modern software development and operations companies have implemented, an Enterprise Risk Matrix. We have seen implementing this process on a quarterly, bi-annual or annual basic can reduce MTTR … Continue Reading…
How to Deal with Service Failures

It’s simple, really — services call other services and they take actions based on the responses from those services. Sometimes, that action is a success, sometimes it’s a failure. But whether it is a success or a failure depends on if the interaction meets certain requirements. In particular, the response must be predictable, understandable and … Continue Reading…
Now Available – Curated Lists

I'm often asked for a list of articles, videos, presentations, interviews, or podcast episodes that I have made on a particular topic. I get this request for a wide variety of topics around cloud computing, DevOps, digital applications, and application modernization. Usually, I can create a list of 8-20 links to things I've written, created, or … Continue Reading…
How Service Tiers Can Help to Avoid Microservices Disasters

Bringing down an entire application is easy. All it takes is the failure of a single service and the entire set of services that make up the application can come crashing down like a house of cards. Just one minor error from a non-critical service can be disastrous to the entire application. There are, of course, many ways to prevent dependent … Continue Reading…
Cloud Strategist

Lee is a recognized industry leader in cloud computing. He has of experience and committed his career to architecting and building high scale, cloud-based, service oriented, SaaS applications. Lee is the Senior Director, Strategic Architecture at New Relic. Lee leads technical architecture and transformation within the Office of the CTO, … Continue Reading…